Today at OpenPOWER Summit 2020, OpenPOWER Foundation announced two key technologies contributed by IBM to the open source community. A2O POWER processor core, an out-of-order follow-up to the A2I core, and associated FPGA environment Open Cognitive Environment (Open-CE), based on IBM’s PowerAI to enable improved...
Earlier this month, OpenPOWER participated in the International Conference on Supercomputing, co-hosted by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC-BarcelonaTECH) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS). The conference showcased the latest research in high-performance computing systems. Included in the agenda was a dedicated Workshop on RISC-V and OpenPOWER...
By: James Kulina Executive Director, OpenPOWER Foundation This May, Antmicro announced support for the POWER ISA in Renode, its open source, multi-architecture, heterogeneous multi-core capable simulator for software development and software-hardware co-development. It’s an exciting development, as developers can now test applications based on the POWER ISA...
At The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit today, the OpenPOWER Foundation announced a major contribution to the open source ecosystem: the IBM A2I POWER processor core design and associated FPGA environment. Following the opening of the POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) last August, today’s announcement...
By James Kulina, Executive Director, OpenPOWER Foundation [caption id="attachment_7535" align="alignleft" width="300"] “It’s my goal to make OpenPOWER one of the easiest platforms to go from an idea to a silicon chip.”- James Kulina, Executive Director, OpenPOWER Foundation[/caption] Hey everyone - I’m a new face here, but I’m...
By Sandy Woodward, OpenPOWER Foundation Compliance Work Group Chair, IBM Academy of Technology Member The Compliance Work Group recently completed the OpenPOWER I/O Design Architecture, version 3 (IODA3) Compliance Test Harness and Test Suite (TH/TS) Specification. The input to the compliance specification is the OpenPOWER I/O...
[caption id="attachment_5638" align="alignleft" width="150"] "It’s been an honour and joy to have been part of the OpenPOWER ecosystem as Executive Director of the Foundation." - Hugh Blemings[/caption] I had the good fortune to join the OpenPOWER Foundation as Executive Director in late 2017. Over the ensuing...
By Bill Schmidt, Ph.D., Toolchain Architect for Linux on Power, IBM The OpenPOWER Foundation System Software Work Group is happy to announce that the public review of the Power Vector Intrinsics Programming Reference (PVIPR) is now open! The new PVIPR document provides developers with resources for effectively...
Hugh Blemings, Executive Director, OpenPOWER Foundation First, the thoughts of all involved in OpenPOWER and the Foundation are with the broader community and their families in these trying and uncertain times. Please stay safe out there. As the Executive Director of the OpenPOWER Foundation, I have had...
As we deal with the serious implications of COVID-19, the team at the OpenPOWER Foundation got to thinking about how a technical organisation like ourselves can connect and support our community. So we hit upon the idea of running ongoing, informal weekly teleconference calls (dial-in details...